“Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day because it is not of to-day.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

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“Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, and we are for the dark.”

― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title”

― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

“The past and the present are within the field of my inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a hard question to answer.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

“That is the one eternal education; to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

“Let them beware of surrendering a political power which they already possess, and which if surrendered will surely be used to close the door of advancement against such as they and to fix new disabilities and burdens upon them till all of liberty...”

― Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union Address

“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not — and very surely do I...”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat

“All the knowledge I possess every one else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

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